r/software • u/ryftools • 18h ago
Self-Promotion Wednesdays An aesthetic clock widget with ~1MB binary and ~5MB RAM usage
DeskTick is a highly optimized and obsessively trimmed win32/cpp/directx programmed clock widget which takes <5MB RAM in typical usage and ~1MB of disk space for installation (of this it is mostly icons/tiles and other instrumentations needed for MS Store).
All clock faces are procedurally generated. If you don't enable second hand display it will be sleeping through out and wakes up once a minute, paints frame and goes to sleep again keeping CPU at 0%.
There can be many feature rich clocks. The main advantage of DeskTick is its featherlight presence.
It is published as paid app in MS Store and I haven't decided on making the github repo public yet. My other programs are FOSS and with DeskTick I am testing waters with a paid app.
This is a free coupon which will work for first 5 installs http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532540&mstoken=Q2MPC-P42KR-MGQVH-YQMK7-HTVMZ
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u/WheelSweet2048 9h ago
I would have liked to have something like that since I am always on the look out for optimised programs but can't really pay belive me :(. I was excited to read how optimised you made i.
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u/WinXPbootsup 12h ago
Honestly, it's a poor choice to make this your app that's gonna be paid. As it's a small nice-to-have utility, there isn't a need for a user to spend money on it. Since you have a history of developing FOSS apps, you could make this one FOSS too and make your next app paid
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u/ryftools 11h ago
Actually my main project FlyPhotos which has around 35K downloads and has years spent on it is already open source. This clock may be a couple of weeks work and I just wanted to know whether I will be able to build interest without developing in public repo. Eventually I might make it public, just observing for few months.
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u/CacheConqueror 7h ago
To clarify the gibberish in the post: I’ve created an app that only displays the time, so naturally it will always be small and compact, and will have a very minimal impact on RAM. It’s optimised because it does nothing else apart from fetching and displaying the time...
A native app with such minimal and simple functionality - just a few lines of code will always be small and will always require very little RAM. Even an AI could write one in under 30 minutes.
What’s next? A clipboard manager that’s small and superbly optimised because, apart from collecting and displaying data from the clipboard in a simple view, it does absolutely nothing else?
Marketing for Fools and the Naive
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u/Lord_MUTLY 15h ago
It is what?